Appendicitis in pregnancy: Experience of thirty-eight patients diagnosed and managed at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 365-367

  Kazim, Syed Faraz ^a   Inam Pal, K M ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Pregnant females; Tertiary care hospital

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; PAKISTAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; PAKISTAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949154466     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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